Crime Statistics for Pleckgate, Lammack, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pleckgate in October 2024. There were a total of 229 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Pleckgate, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	73
Anti Social Behaviour	58
Vehicle Crime	54
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Public Order	10
Other Theft	8
Drugs	6
Other Crime	4
Robbery	4
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	229

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Pleckgate. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Pleckgate

We've taken the ten nearest places to Pleckgate and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Pleckgate has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Little Harwood (1.39 miles)	768
Brookhouse (1.39 miles)	665
Four Lane End (0.62 miles)	391
Revidge (0.62 miles)	391
Brownhill (0.62 miles)	228
Pleckgate	210
Bank Hey (1.24 miles)	201
Lammack (0.88 miles)	122
Beardwood (0.88 miles)	122
Salesbury (1.24 miles)	16

Where are the most violent places near Pleckgate?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Pleckgate and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Harwood	245
Brookhouse	209
Four Lane End	139
Revidge	139
Pleckgate	73
Brownhill	72
Bank Hey	52
Lammack	52
Beardwood	52
Salesbury	4

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Pleckgate?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Pleckgate to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Pleckgate compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pleckgate and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Pleckgate is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mill Hill & Moorgate	87
2	Ewood	82
3	Blackburn Central	76
4	Wensley Fold	69
5	Audley & Queen's Park	69
6	Shear Brow & Corporation Park	61
7	Bastwell & Daisyfield	54
8	Roe Lee	52
9	Billinge & Beardwood	50
10	Livesey with Pleasington	47
11	Mellor	2

Which road in Pleckgate has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Pleckgate with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.